Lead Engineer
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Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions and value-added services for freight and transit rail. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation and Faiveley Transport, the company has unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems. Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress, creating transportation solutions that move and improve the world. Wabtec has approximately 27,000 employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit the company’s new website at: . It’s not just about your career… or your job title…it’s about who you are and the impact you are going to make on the world. Do you want to go into uncharted waters…do things that haven’t been done to make yours and someone else's life better? Wabtec has been doing that for decades and we will continue to do so! Through our people, leadership development, services, technology and scale, Wabtec delivers better outcomes for global customers by speaking the language of industry. It’s not just about your career or job title… It’s about who you are and the impact you will make on the world. Because whether it’s for each other or our customers, we put People First. When our people come together, we Expand the Possible and continuously look for ways to improve what we create and how we do it. If you are constantly striving to grow, you’re in good company. We are revolutionizing the way the world moves for future generations, and we want someone who is ready to move with us. Who are we? Wabtec Corporation is a leading global provider of equipment, systems, digital solutions, and value-added services for freight and transit rail as well as the mining, marine, and industrial markets. Drawing on nearly four centuries of collective experience across Wabtec, GE Transportation, and Faiveley Transport, the company has grown to become One Wabtec, with unmatched digital expertise, technological innovation, and world-class manufacturing and services, enabling the digital-rail-and-transit ecosystems. Wabtec is focused on performance that drives progress and unlocks our customers’ potential by delivering innovative and lasting transportation solutions that move and improve the world. We are lifelong learners obsessed with making things better to drive exceptional results. Wabtec has approximately 27K employees in facilities throughout the world. Visit our website to learn more! Job Overview: Senior Frontend Software developer on Wabtec Flagship Dispatch Product called Precision Dispatch System (PDS). You will work in a fast paced Agile team environment and be responsible for developing and testing software solutions for new functionality, remediating defects in existing functionality, and contributing to team success. The software you develop will be destined for services to be deployed in a cloud based architecture using the latest software development techniques. You will be an individual contributor on an Agile software team. In this role, you will:
- You will be part of an agile team developing services for the PDS 2.0 Project
- You will be a software developer responsible for designing, implementing and testing new services using AngularJS.
- Write code that meets standards and delivers desired functionality using the technology selected for the project
- Drive world-class quality in the development and support of products
- Engage subject matter experts in successful transfer of complex domain knowledge
- Apply principles of SDLC and methodologies like Lean/Agile/XP, CI, Software and Product Security, Scalability, Documentation Practices, refactoring and Testing Techniques
- Write code that meets standards and delivers desired functionality using the technology selected for the project
- Understand performance parameters and assess application performance
- Work on core data structures and algorithms and implement them using technology chosen
- Proactively share information across the team, to the right audience with the appropriate level of detail and timeliness
- Highly proficient in spoken and written English
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Technology, Engineering.
- 8+ years Software Industry experience
- 6+ years frontend development experience
- Effective and productive software engineer in Remote working environment
- TypeScript
- HTML, CSS pre-processors (SASS), CSS framework
- Ability to understand UX designs & requirements to convert them to technical requirements
- Implement functional components in Angular
- Integrate angular components with backend REST services
- Unit testing
- Debugging skills
- ElectronJS
- Cloud native (AWS) understanding
- SonarQube
- NPM / webpack
- Effective remote working skills to learn new environment, domain, product with minimal time
- Self starter and able to set direction for self and others when uncertainty exists
- Highly effective and efficient troubleshooting skills
- Highly effective communications skills
- Technical ownership and drive to complete tasks on schedule
- Seeks to understand problems thoroughly before implementing solutions.
- Identifies opportunities for innovation and offers new ideas.
- Adapts to new environments and changing requirements. Pivots quickly as needed. When coached,
- responds to need & seeks info from other sources
- Employee is regularly required to talk and hear.
- Employee able to travel if needed less than 10%
- Employee able to use a computer for programing and interacting with his team.
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